Prada Fall Winter 2025-2026 “The Elegance of Undone Femininity”. Story by RUNWAY MAGAZINE. Photo Courtesy: Prada.

What does femininity mean today? How can it be defined? The Fall/Winter 2025 Prada show by Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons doesn’t seek to answer these questions—it simply poses them, leaving the audience to navigate an ever-shifting landscape of perception. In an era where gender and beauty norms are deconstructed and reimagined with every season, Prada once again disrupts expectations, offering an interrogation rather than a conclusion.

The Negligé of Elegance

There is nothing obvious about this collection. It resists the easy clichés of femininity—there’s no overt sensuality, no polished glamour. Instead, Prada explores an aesthetic of intellectual disarray, a studied deconstruction of elegance. Fabrics slip, layers are imperfectly aligned, and silhouettes reject precision in favor of something more fluid, more instinctive. A whisper of lingerie is present, but not in its predictable, seductive form—it appears as an unfinished thought, a suggestion of intimacy rather than its declaration.

The Questioning of Beauty

This is not beauty as a commodity but beauty as a conversation. The garments refuse to conform to expectations: a coat might slip slightly off the shoulder, a dress might appear deliberately unfastened, a hem might hover in uncertainty between being too long and too short. It is this tension—between refinement and effortlessness, between structure and dissolution—that defines the collection.

Femininity in Flux

By stripping away excess and rejecting the overly stylized, Prada and Simons create a vision of femininity that feels elusive yet precise in its intent. There is no single answer to the question of what femininity is today—only a dialogue, an ongoing negotiation between past and future, between perception and reinvention.

This is Prada at its most thought-provoking: clothing not as a statement, but as a question, left open-ended for those who dare to consider its implications.

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